Armed Forces Week Begins at Fort Detrick With Ceremonies
Fort Detrick will host a military style Armed Forces Week starting Friday May 16 with a retreat ceremony before the Byron Building. Brig Gen Russ Zajtchuk will speak as Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick leaders participate. Saturday May 17 features a 10K run at 8 am, a free SOS breakfast at 9 am and remarks by US Rep Roscoe Bartlett at 9 36 am in the H O T Dome. Displays include the U S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and Humvee and Light Armored Vehicle exhibits. The post hosts a research festival May 21 22 with 200 scientists and a science fair on Blue and Gray Field plus a health fair and cancer information. For details call 619 3357 or visit the Fort Detrick website.
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Fort Detrick
Eileen Mitchell
Byron Building
Russ Zajtchuk
US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Roscoe Bartlett
Tricare
Susan Larson
Tricare Northeast
U.S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Army
Telemedicine Research Laboratory
Army Space Command
4Th Light Armored Infantry Battalion
Sixth Theater Medical Materiel Management Center
Frederick County
U.S Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
National Cancer Institute
Frederick
Barnesville mayor re elected in landslide victory
Barnesville mayor Elizabeth Lib Tolbert won a 16th term after 69 votes from 77 residents. Incumbent council members Peter Menke and Bonnie Brown were also returned with 56 and 42 votes respectively as Tolbert campaigned on keeping Barnesville as the last rural outpost and tightening speed enforcement.
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Barnesville
Elizabeth “Lib” Tolbert
Tolbert
Peter Menke
Bonnie Brown
Literacy Council honors top tutors in Frederick County
The Literacy Council of Frederick County wrapped a year with 225 students in basic reading and 75 in ESL tutoring plus a dozen in computer literacy. Awards went to Sushila Bhattacharjee for Outstanding ESL Tutor and Beth Anne Stockslager for Outstanding Basic Tutor.
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Literacy Council
Frederick County
Sushila Bhattacharjee
Beth Anne Stockslager
William Diggs
Sanna Chen
Mike Turell
Phil Roessler
Tammy Nuzzaci
Middletown High
Anita Jones
Joyce Routzahn
Toby Browning
Joshua Tice
Andrew Nicklas
Betty Seligmann
Toni Cordell
Laubach Literacy
Syracuse
N.Y
Hood
Joyce Routzabn
Ms. Seligmann
Hearing Scheduled On Bailes Lane Closure For Airport Expansion
Frederick City Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on May 12 at 7 p.m. in City Hall to consider permanently closing Bailes Lane to enable airport expansion. The panel will likely recommend to the mayor and aldermen. Stan Aldridge city engineer at 694-1405 can provide drawings and details. FAA officials pledged help to compensate affected businesses amid concerns from local merchants and a push for greater input.
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Frederick
Stan Aldridge
Square One
Jim Grimes
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Frederick County
County begins appeals for $95 million funding requests
Frederick County Commissioners open a long process to pare down supplemental funding requests totaling more than $95 million for fiscal 1998. They must choose which appeals to fund and how, with options including budget cuts, new revenue, or denying most requests.
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Frederick County
Terre Roy Rhoderick
Browning
Mark Sneadner
Sneadner
Bruce Reeder
Personnel board met over Vandever firing at Weinberg Center
A personnel board hearing on the firing of Lesley Vandever former acting and operations director at the Weinberg Center for the Arts continued after Monday with a witness list and potential rescheduling. Mayor Jim Grimes and center director Jade Wu had praised Vandever in prior months while the board prepares findings to be sent to the mayor and aldermen, a process that could take several days.
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Lesley Vandever
Weinberg Center For the Arts
Ms. Vandever
Cause
Jim Grimes
Jade Wu
Ms Vandever
Ms. Wu
Jonathan Angel
Myersville
Fisher's Hollow Road
Ted Meminger
Meminger
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West College Terrace
Frederick, MD
Frederick High
Bowling Center
Vandever
Angel
Mr Grimes
Gouker
Donald Gouker
Frostburg State University
Orbital Science Corporation
Germantown
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Donald
Kathleen Gouker
Margaret
Benjamin Fetting
Christopher Fetting
Philip Qi
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Parris Island
Point Branch High School
Burtonsville
Moore
M. Theresa Moore
St. John's
Prospect Hall High School
Hunter
Dean
Vaughn Hunter
University of Michigan College of Engineering
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Windsor Designs
OW Lee
Summer Classics
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EO. Merz
Pacific Rim
Salterint
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Pawley
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Fairview Center
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Terat
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